Ep 10 Gardiner Snyder of Camping Coastie

In this episode, Hank Strange welcomes guest Gardiner Snyder to discuss his RV lifestyle journey and Class B RVs. They delve into the adventure of exploring new roads and places, and Gardiner's new echo flow delivery. Other topics touched upon include parking etiquette, working on your RV, the importance of RV AAA, overnight parking benefits, and dealing with van malfunctions. They also address a listener's question on security concerns during road trips.

Episode Transcript

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PSOAR podcast.

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Of course, here, we are celebrating, exploringclass b, RVs Overlanding, and Van Light
culture.
That's right.
And as I said earlier here, my guest today isgardener Schneider of Camping coasty.
What's up?
This bike.
Happen.

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Yeah.
I'm expecting FedEx.
So Oh, FedEx dude.
That FedEx dude is in for trouble.
So if you've been looking at my channel, youwould have seen Gartner, Campan Kosta, you
would see Deb and Spike on there already.
They've been we've been friends with them sincewe got into this van life.
We, of course, own a coachman.

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Shout out to coachman.
Class B RV.
It is a Beyond, and you guys are also an ownerof a Beyond as well.
As well as other things for camping fun.
Yeah.
We have the, a coach and beyond.
It's a 2020 model on 2019 chassis with the l Ithree batteries, and it's great.
It's, for traveling, I don't think you youcan't beat a a class b.

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And the
coachman is great.
Absolutely.
So from Jay Dimon, Jay Dimon says, hello,gentlemen.
Sorry about a spike.
That's a good one.
It's a spike.
He was just now, he was all quiet and Gardoalready knew this was gonna happen.
And then the minute that guy showed up, he justwent into it full attack mode.

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Yeah.
It's it's crazy.
Right?
Yeah.
It's a perfect time.
Beautiful thing.
Beautiful thing.
Yep.
So Jay Diamond says Hello, gentlemen.
Love and learn.
The love and learn tour says what's the topictoday?
So we could talk about whatever you guys wannatalk about.
Of course, I think, you know, Camping coastyhas a lot of experience traveling here.

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I'm gonna give him a chance, first of all, tojust tell you guys who he is does have a
YouTube channel.
I would encourage everyone to go look at hisYouTube channel.
I I look at it all the time.
They've got good stuff that goes up on there.
You can also follow them.
On social media.
So, Gardner, just tell the folks, who you are,how you came into doing this whole class VRV
thing.

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Yeah.
We we basically started traveling.
Well, we used to cruise a lot.
We got out of cruising with Dolby Travel andsee America, and we did it by car or first big
road trip, and it was horrible having to find ahotel every night that we could take a spike to
and all that.
So we bought a, a tow behind camper.
And we had that just for a little while, andthen we realized that a motor home would have

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been better choice.
So we bought a a road track, a 2016, adventure,on the Mercedes Chassis.
We had that for about 2 years and we got therejust to get a little bit bigger.
So I bought a, pleasure way class C as, like, alittle wide body.
Had that for about 2 years and just reallyhappy with it, and we ended up buying the,

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coach and beyond.
And it's just been great.
We've got about fifty two thousand miles on itnow.
And it's taken us to every state in the countryexcept for about 7 states.
We we really like it.
But we also have a, a toy hauler that we pullwhen we go camping because I consider camping
and traveling 2 different things.

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So when you go camping, we take our our toyhauler trailer to like Key West and I'll stay
at the navy base there or, Texas Strange thatthe army base there, and then we can travel
around on our pickup truck.
But when we travel the country, you can't be aclass b.
We can pull into any parking lot and, just finda parking parking spot, cracker barrels.

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And that's why I was gonna us is finding placesto park because in a class b, it's pretty easy,
and it's pretty cheap too.
So but that's about it.
I think that is a good subject, right, like,exactly when you're traveling out there.
And, of course, for all the folks who get intoclass RVs get into van life.
The whole point of it is that you're travelingwith your hotel room, but at the same time,

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unlike a a class c, a class a, you know, youhave this smaller package that can kind of fit
in anywhere.
So the allure of it is you don't always have tostay in campground.
Right?
Right.
Right, bitch.
Yeah.
Because you you can go you you can almost goto, like, drive through at some places at
restaurants, you know, I mean,

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you
have to watch your overhead, but you can goplaces that you can never dream of taking a
class C or a class A or a tow behind trailer.
Mhmm.
And basically it's just, if if a full sizepickup truck will fit in it, you can park, your
your typical class b there.
Yeah.
Especially beyond.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
So, you know, as, the love and learn tour said,what's the topic today.

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Whatever you guys wanna talk about right now,we're gonna talk about finding places to park,
places to stay.
Shout out to Daniel S that's out there as wellas Ricky Bro, Dan Archer.
They all say hi to us.
Okay.
So what do you think for someone who's new tothis or even someone who's been doing it, how
would you recommend to to go about findingthese places?

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Should you plan it out in advance?
Do plan on on the go, how does it work for you?
Yeah.
We're we're kind of unusual in in the way wetravel is that we'll pick one destination that
we're gonna go to, like, say, the Grand Canyonor, some, some, particular place that we're
gonna and I'll make a reservation for there.

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And so we'll say, okay, we've got 3 weeks toget there.
And then we basically just go on a day to dayhalf of finding a place to just spend the
night, and then we'll say, okay, we've got like4 more days to get there.
I might have to speed it up a little bit, butbut typically finding reservations for one

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place and then just filling in on the way backthere and the way back home works really good
for us because we we can find a place prettymuch anywhere to park And, so that that's how
we do it.
And, I use RV parky.
It's an app on my phone.
And that's a great way to finding, campgroundsor free parking spots.

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Mhmm.
Sometimes I do use well, I use a military apptoo because I do military bases.
But for the most RV park, he's been reallygreat for us.
Mhmm.
You know?
Yeah.
I think so that is a good place right there.
So apps you said, R.
V.
Parkie, there's, there's eye exit that thatLola and I, like, use a lot.

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The, rest stops, harvest host.
What was the one you were saying?
Yeah.
Campendium.
Campendium.
Mhmm.
Yeah.
Those are all good, apps for people to look up.
Harvest host does have a fee.
Right?
Yeah.
Mhmm.
And you know, I found that you typically haveto call ahead or sometimes you can email.

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What's your experience with, Harvest Host?
I've had, we don't use harvest hosts a lot.
We probably use it maybe 6% of our travels.
But, typically, we'll we'll find it on thetheir website and, sometimes they have one day
notice, like, you can, you know, request thatsame day or 2 days, but, typically, we've we've

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had pretty good luck getting places withHarvest House.
The the thing is that they want you to spendsome money with, the place you're staying at.
Mhmm.
If you
were to stay at a campground, you're gonnaspend, oh my gosh, even a cheap campground
these days, it's gonna cost probably at least$20.
I mean, not a not a federal campground, butjust a private campground.

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You're gonna spend 20, 40, 50 $60 at night.
So if you spend $20 at a harvest host, you'vegot a place to park, but you also end up maybe
getting a a meal or a bottle of wine or somecheese or, you know, whatever they sell at the
harvest host.
So it's kind of I think it's a better deal thana campground.

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The the only problem is the, facilities.
They they might not have, electrical hookups.
Or they might have a dump station or water.
But traveling in the class b, you really don'tneed to dump or get water all the time because
you travel with your own water and tanks.
Having electricity,
that
could be a little different, but, it's alwaysit's never been a problem for us with our,

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lithium batteries.
Yeah.
So shout out to Ricky Labet that's in there,and Ricky Bro said Loverlander.
Is that an app?
Not familiar with that one.
If if that is if yeah.
If that is an app.
Yeah.
So you know, they're with with the the wholething I think with Harvest Host is that

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typically, the the facilities that you're goingto, like you said, they're they're gonna be
very different.
Right?
And you don't need you don't necessarily needto use facilities, I have come across a few of
them that do have that.
Like, the they'll say, oh, if you wanna dump,you could dump here, or if you wanna get water
or something like that.
But typically, it's places you could go to.

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You could have something to eat.
You can maybe get entertainment.
There's a place in, There's a place in Arizona,which I cannot remember right now, but it's in
a 50 style diner, and then right next door toit is a theater.
And, yeah, and that place is really nice.
I've been there.
It's you you, you know, you can get good foodthere.

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If you plan ahead, you can actually see a showand they have places to dump and all that kind
of stuff, but everyone's not like that.
So, it really depends.
Really depends.
I've not stayed that much in a campground, Itypically find that Lola and I will stay in a
campground if, for example, we can't really gothat far.
Maybe we're testing out a van.

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We don't wanna put a lot of miles on it, sowe'll find a campground and and just go there
and stay there and and have the whole chance.
But I I'm with you guys.
If I'm getting out of my van, I might have aplace that I need to get to, but I love the
adventure of figuring out all you know, wedecided to go down this road, where do we where
do we go now?
So, other than harvest hosts, are there someplaces that you go to when, you know, like last

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minute stuff, you know, what's the options doyou think for last minute if you really didn't
plan?
What place can you usually sneak into and getto park overnight?
Speaking of sneaking into, Years ago, this is astory that not many people know about, but soon
a lot of people will know about this story, butit's pretty funny because when, Magnolia Table

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Restaurant opened up in Waco, Texas, we werewanting to go there just because it was new and
all that.
The the, you know, the chip in Joanne Gaines.
So, we scattered out the restaurant.
We got there about 10 o'clock at night, and Iwas just looking where I could park in the
morning.
I thought, Well, there's nobody here.
We'll just park in their parking lot.

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So we moved into their parking lot, and about 6o'clock in the morning.
I heard some noise out there, and I saw therewas a, a guard out there.
So I I got dressed.
I went outside and I said, Hey, how you doing?
He goes, oh, pretty good.
I said, yeah, we got here a little bit earlyfor the, for the breakfast in the morning.
He goes, yeah, you must have got here earlybecause you were here when I got here.

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So I got here about 6 o'clock.
I said, yeah, we got here a little bit beforethat.
Mhmm.
So we spent the night.
Yeah.
It was it was pretty funny.
That's a beautiful thing, man.
With a with a class VRV, if you, you know, ifthere's some event, that you wanna be 1st in
line for.
You could Yeah.
You you can always show up overnight.

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I try to do that with, There's, you know, I'minto Watches, and, the Swatch Group put out
these they put out these, really cool Watches.
And you have to go to an actual, store in orderto get them, and I try to convince Lola that we
should go to this store overnight and camp outthere.

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And she said, no way.
You know?
So we go there.
We go there at the regular business hours, andwe stand on the line for hours.
And the only people and then they sold out bythe time we got by the time we got up there.
And the people who actually were able to getthese watches were there at 5 o'clock in the
morning.
Yeah.
And I was so mad.
I was like, could have I could have,

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He could have been there.
Yeah.
I could have been here.
I have all the facilities.
Man.
Yeah.
And and that's
That's the beauty of it.
You know, I mean, you can you can get therelike that.
We've, we we go to art shows a lot.
Mhmm.
And, So if you get there early, you can get agood parking spot.
Just and we usually will call, like, there's aplace up in, it's in Kentucky.

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I'm trying to figure the name of the place.
Sandy Hook Kentucky.
And I
have a big art show up there, and you can see,like, behind me, there's a lot of, Debt likes
to collect folk art and stuff like that.
So we'll go up there to this, place, and wecall him up and say, can we, you know, spend
the night in your parking lot the night beforethe show.
And most of the time, they say yes.
So you my my thoughts are always be politeAlways ask for permission, and always thank

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them.
Like, we we go to cracker barrels a lot.
I mean, that's a tip Hank, cracker barrels.
Mhmm.
And I always make it a point to talk to themanager and just tell them, thank you for
letting us spend the night.
So he knows that we spend the night, but wealso, you know, ate there.
And, so that's a a big important thing.
So Yeah.

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I'm getting a delivery right now.
Yay.
So I'm getting I'm getting a new echo flow, sowe'll be excited.
Okay.
Yeah.
We could talk about that.
For sure.
The and that's what I was getting to with thequestion.
There are places, I think, harvest, not talkedabout harvest hosts, but,
Cracker Barrels.
Just one second.
Absolutely.
One second.
Everything.
Yeah.
So Cracker Barrels are always a good place.

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You should check, though.
I there's probably some crack of barrels outthere that don't want you to stay there, but
most of them do, but you can always checkonline or even call them and find out if they
do.
Same thing with Walmart's, camping coaster andmyself, we have a video where we talked about
Mart and the etiquette of staying in a Walmart,overnight.

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And not every Walmart allows you to do that.
When he gets back, we'll actually get intothat.
Meanwhile, let me shout out people, while we'redoing it.
Shout out to Diane Jimenez out there who's beena fan of what we do for a long time.
We've actually met her and her husband outthere in the real world, and also Lola is out
there as well.

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So and I see Dan Archer has a question whichwe'll get to here in a second.
So everything good with your eco flow?
Yep.
It's delivering.
I had to sign for it.
Oh, okay.
Yeah.
No.
That's cool.
We got that.
Yeah.
So I wanna talk about, Walmart and, let's see.
So you've you've Strange have you stayed atWalmart a lot?

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Do you do that?
Yeah.
We typically stay at Walmart West of theMississippi.
Okay.
They're they're usually pretty RV friendly.
We stated a lot of Walmarts east of theMississippi, but we prefer Cracker Barrel east
of the Mississippi.
Mhmm.
And then Walmarts west.
Okay.
What's the reason for that?

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Yeah.
Well, kind of the main reason the CrackerBarrel is it's usually very quiet at night,
because there's no customers there.
So after 10 o'clock at night, usually thecracker barrel parking lot is just peaceful.
Mhmm.
Plus they have a good food, and I like to eat.
So
Yeah.
And then, and then out west, the the theWalmart's out west.

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They're, usually a lot of them are very RBfriendly, but you still need to call them up
and check because there could be, like, localthe ordinances that you can't spend the night
in a parking lot or different places, buttypically, the Walmart's out west, there's a
lot of people that stay at them.
So when you stay there, like, you know, youmight find 10 or 20 different RVs in the

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parking lot that night, which the more RB iskind of the the safer.
You kind of feel like safety and numbers.
So, you know, if you're just a single RB outthere by yourself, there's one RV, you know,
but if there's 20 of them, it just it just morecomfortable for for us.
Yeah.
And we
If we run out of time, we may carry this overinto, into the next part.

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But what I did wanna show people was thisarticle that, low Lola actually sent an
article.
Let me see if I can if I can actually switch toit here, switch to my phone.
Boom.
There you go.
Walmart has a new trick to stop RVs fromovernighting.
So not every Walmart actually let me see if wecan go this way, and this would be better for

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you easier for you guys.
For decades, Walmart has allowed overnight RVparking.
The company has been a staple among RVs becauseof this privilege, wary traveler could easily
pull off the interstate park in the back of thelot and catch a few hours of sleep before
starting out the following day.
But recently, Walmart has started crack down onovernight parking, eliminating it in some
locations.

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In West Memphis, Arkansas, 1 Walmart Walmarteven installed clearance bars At Strange, is
this the end of free Walmart overnight parking?
You know, what do you what do you think aboutthat, Gardner?
Yeah.
Sadly, there's a lot of people that abuse.

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We have something like a Walmart lets you spendthe night there.
And, you know, if you go in and you do someshopping with them and you buy some product.
It's good for Walmart, but sadly, some people,they're disrespectful to the property, and
they'll Yeah.
Leave trash and just I've seen some really badthings people have done at the parking lot, you

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know?
Like, dumping a black tank in a parking lot isa horrible thing.
And I've I've seen that one time.
Oh, wow.
But, yeah.
So stuff like that, it it it ruins it for justus normal people that like to just park
overnight there.
Some people, they set up home in a parking lot.
I mean, you know, like, we'll we'll go out to,we've been like in, Mesa Verde, and there's a

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Walmart there that we'll spend the night at,and we spend the night.
We drive around.
We go up different places and 5 days later, wecome back to pass into that area, and we'll
stop at the Walmart again, and there'll bepeople that are that have been there you know,
for a week or 2 weeks or longer, you can tellbecause they set up they set up camp there.

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You know, they chairs out, and they're they'reliving there.
So that that's what's purchased.
Yeah.
That's the dangerous that's the dangerousthing.
And I and I read articles that, you know,there's been fights at some of these Walmarts,
and there've even been people hurt.
So it then it becomes a liability for theoverall company itself.
And if that continues, I'm sure Walmart willjust have, like, you know, a complete policy in

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all the Walmarts.
They don't want people there, so really wannabe careful about it.
Did you wanna say something?
We got, like, 30 seconds before this goes tothe break.
Oh, yeah.
They did some really cool places that we spentthe night, Check out, like, the RV parking for
city campgrounds.
A lot of city campgrounds have little citycampgrounds.

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And, we can talk about that, so more if youlike later.
But, that's Piosh and Piosh Nevada was a reallycool city campground.
We spent the night in, and, it was by donation.
So if you wanna leave them $5 or $10 orwhatever, but it was a pretty neat little
campground.
We'll be right back here.
We're taking a quick break.
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Alright.
We are back here.
And, let me get to this question from Dan thathe asked a little bit earlier.

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He says, okay.
Here's a silly question.
Do you find it easy to get places to work onyour rig?
For, like, brake work or and oil changes.
What about working on the engine?
What do you think about that, Gardner?
Well, we we just got home from a 46100 miletrip.
We drove up to, North Dakota, And, I did noticemy brakes were starting to get a little noisy,

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and all the time I thought that my servicedepartment had been checking my brake pads, but
I guess they hadn't.
So, I heard a little bit of a dragging sound onmy right rear, and it was kind of At the middle
of nowhere where we were.
There was not a lot of dealers, and, it waskinda hard to find a place that could actually
work on it.
And there weren't even break shops where we'reI mean, just like it was just a few four

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dealers, and, we made an appointment 2 dayslater 600 miles away Wow.
In in Omaha, Nebraska from South Dakota.
Mhmm.
And, as we were driving down the road, I saidto my wife, I Hey, look, there's a Ford dealer
right there.
3:30 in the afternoon, and, we pulled into aFord dealer in, Redfield, South Dakota, South

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Dakota, Redfield, Nebraska, you know, Redfield,whatever.
And, at 3:30 in the afternoon, I said, Hey, mybrakes are acting, making noise, Can you look
at it?
And the guy says, you're on the road.
He said, you you don't need bad breaks.
So he says, sure.
We'll look at it.
And in an hour a half, they replaced my rearbrake which is pretty good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, typically, we haven't had any troublefinding places for oil changes and stuff like

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that on the road because it's a Ford transitAnd, it's basically just a fort.
I mean, it, when we had our our, Sprinter, thatwas more difficult because to get a splinter
worked on, it had to be a splinter certified,repair shop, and that's a lot more, unusual

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than the Ford.
So typically when we're driving, we reallyhaven't had any, problems first of all, we've
had haven't had any problems with the transitexcept we're needing a great job, and that's
just maintenance.
But, it's it's it's been pretty easy, really.
I've had oil changes in, probably 5 or 6different states now.
Yeah.
You know, where we be on the road, and it'stime for an oil change.

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So,
Yeah.
I've had Hank oil change.
I think, I think the last weird, not weirdplace, but on the road place I I was in
California.
I had a oil change, just because, you know, theit the thing came up.
I I think in in terms of this question that,let me go back here.
That was from Dan Archer.
I think in terms of this question, there areemergencies that come up, and I know, for

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example, Polola and I have a video wheresomething was wrong with the car, and we
weren't sure if it was a tire or not justbecause, like, the steering wheel was shaking,
turned out it was a tire.
Right?
And that tire wind up wound up actually blowingup.
And I stopped at a gas station and looked atit, but I couldn't figure it out.
In hindsight, the best way for me to have dealtwith that, I think, is what gardener is saying.

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Right?
If you could identify that it's a tire, go to atire shop.
Right?
We we stopped at a, at a Ford dealership, andthey didn't know what it was either.
It was a real busy busy place.
They didn't take a look at I have found that asI've been traveling, it it has been relatively
easy to make appointments with the dealerships.

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If you call up in advance and things that, youcan look on your phone and figure out the next
one coming up, or if it say, hey, maybetomorrow, I'll I'll stop at this place and go
into this dealership, but but not always.
In that situation, we should Hank probably goneto a tire specialty place and just had them,
look at the tires, and they would have beenable figure that out or call AAA or something.

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I I can you actually pull into a gas stationand start working on something?
I I don't know.
I I don't think you can actually do that.
There might be some places, but how does thatwork?
Yeah.
In in the old days of, like, a service station,you know, there there's a service station,
there's a gas station.
In the old days, there used to be servicestations.

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You'd you'd see, like, they have 2 big garagedoors And those guys, they usually were good at
replacing tires and windshield wipers and Mhmm.
Oil changes and stuff like that.
Those places are kinda disappearing.
They're there's more gas stations andconvenience stores.
But, if you do find a, a gas station, if it's areal, I mean, a service station, a real service

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station, they can help you out with some, someproblems, and you'll find those more out out,
out west out in the country.
It seems like we're at smaller towns where theythey have service stations.
Yeah.
Or if if you find a big, like, a really big,gas station that's, let's say, they're dealing
with a bunch of, of, like, tractor trailers orsomething like that.

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You know, you you might be able to do that.
You you really So first of all, I would say beas careful as possible and make sure you're not
getting hurt wherever you're stopping to workon something.
And then think about whether or not you can doit in that place.
If you're really in trouble, you might wannaput whatever you're up to on hold.
Until you can figure out how to get to aprofessional to do it, you know, some sometimes

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you have to play it by ear.
I know a lot of guys that fix their own stuff.
So if you're gonna fix your own things, youwanna be on solid ground.
You don't really wanna be on dirt.
And also, changing a tire, I mean, it soundssimple.
I mean, I've changed tires, like, I don't knowhow many times on cars and trucks.

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But on a RV, it's different because you'relifting something that's, you know, £8, £10,000
Mhmm.
And, you really need to have a proper jack andprop like, like, you know, Hank was saying
proper footing.
Mhmm.
A solid surface.
And to me, changing a a tire on an RV.
But, yeah, I also did law enforcement.

(27:42):
Let me pull a note that I was in lawenforcement.
And first of all, on the side of the road, carswhizzing by at 60, 70, 80 miles an hour, you
don't wanna be out there laying on your backtrying to put a jack under something.
So, it's if you have a flat and you have roadservice Let let them take care of it.
Yeah.

(28:02):
It's and, if if you I've always told people,like, if you have a a flat and you're on the
road, and you can see, like, on the interstate,and there's a a half a mile ahead, as a a pull
off drive on it.
I would rather destroy a rim than
Mhmm.
Try to change a tire on the side of theinterstate.
I mean, I would I would I would give up a $500rim than do than do that myself.

(28:27):
So, sometimes it's best just lettingprofessionals take care of stuff.
Yeah.
I mean, especially at night, especially I mean,the bad things can happen in broad daylight.
I've seen it, but at nighttime in the rain,yeah, just, you know, you can you can replace
that thing.
You can't replace yourself, or a loved one ifthey get So, definitely definitely be careful

(28:51):
with that.
And, along those lines, I just wanted to say wedid just post a video here on the channel about
the jacking points under the Beyond.
I did that with Nick Rekki of Coachmen, classB.
We were at the factory and, because when we hadthat blowout, people had questions about how do
you put a full size jack on there where thejacking points.

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So there's a video up on that on the channel ifyou guys wanna see it.
You have to carry a full size jack with you inorder to do that, and you might wanna carry
some other things if you're gonna do it aswell.
You might wanna carry some boards, you know,the the the right kind of thing to get those
lugs off.
There's a whole bunch of things involved that.

(29:33):
So if not, AAA, really good thing.
Lola and I have AAA.
And if you want them to work on an RV, youbetter have the RV AAA.
Because when they see that it's a even thoughthere's a vans, they're still RVs.
So you better have RV AAA.
Otherwise, they won't, they won't service you.
Just a just a tip.
I I I I learned that to hard way.

(29:54):
Yeah.
It is it's a lot better.
Let somebody else take that risk too by havingsomebody change your tire, especially tire.
Yeah.
So The RV triple a is worth it.
I don't I don't make any money from tellinganyone this.
But the RV triple a is worth the extra moneybecause they'll tow your RV And Lola knows the
details better than me, but they'll tow that RVa few hundred miles if they have to.

(30:16):
So
Yeah.
Yeah.
Could be worth it.
I I hopefully, hopefully, we covered that.
Jay Dimond says Bass Pro Shop even has dumpstations yet.
Bass Pro Shops.
Good place to stop into if you need things.
I like buggies.
You can always stop in there, get gas, get
food.
Bucky.
Yet use a clean bathroom.

(30:37):
I don't do you know what Buckey's policy isabout, staying overnight there?
I don't think there's an official policy so faras I know.
Well, there there is an official policy.
Buckies does not allow RVs to park overnight.
Okay.
But there's a but there.
I've been to a couple of buggies, and I've justasked them if they would let people spend the

(31:02):
night there.
And I've been told at a couple of buckylocations that if you are tired and you wanna
spend the night there as long as you are gone Ithink the guy said, like, by 6 or 7 in the
morning, and and you park out in the out in thefield, you know, like, the out, not at close,
but kind of away from store that I found acouple that will let you stay there, but their

(31:28):
official policy is no overnight parking.
Mhmm.
But they will bend that rule sometimes.
I've discovered.
Yeah.
Once again, you wanna be respectful, ask Youknow?
Yes.
I am.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because because, you you don't like gettingthat knock on the door at 3 o'clock in the
morning.
And, I've had that knock on the door at a placewhere I should not have had that knock on the

(31:53):
door.
I had it twice, but it's just kinda weird.
But if you if you're in a buck out too, butthat that's a funny story.
But if you go to a bucky's, they usually have agood price on fuel.
And they have very clean restrooms.
I mean, their restrooms are amazing.
And, anything you can imagine drink wise theyHank, So you can get some nice foods, some

(32:14):
drink, barbecue, jerky.
We we love going to buggies.
They're very good.
Yeah.
But he's he's me fat, man.
When I'm on the road, he's getting me fat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, the the knock on the door story, we werethere's a area on I 10, it's about a mile east
inside of Mississippi from Louisiana, nearStennis Space Center.

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It's on the south side of the I 10, and theyhave a really nice, rest area there with room
for RVs and stuff.
And we went there one day and, by parked wherethe RV was supposed to park, and there was a
lot of trucks where the trucks park, and it wasabout you know, 2 o'clock in the morning.

(32:58):
So I knocked on my door, and he wanted me tomove so they could put an, 18 wheeler where I
was parked.
So
I
thought that was kind of kind of weird, but,you know, I started with an RV second.
And then, about a month or 2 months later, wewere passed through there, and we stopped at
the same place.
And, said, okay, I'll just, I'll just do thisright.
I'll park over where the guy told me to parkoriginally.

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So I parked over there and got a guy knockingon my door.
He says, you know, you're facing the wrongdirection in the parking lot.
Well, you see, that's it.
I know.
I said, said, is the way, you know, you yougotta be here, you don't go out and out of the
interstate, the wrong direction.
I said, I'm not that stupid, man.
And I'm just parked over here because it's theway you want me to park.
But, so, But it's it's it's there's alwaysplaces you can find a place to park, but, the

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guy was also mentioning about the, Bass Proshops, usually the Cabela's had dump station.
And all they really Hank for is that when yougo to the a Cabela's to, spend some money
there, And they'll give you a code becauseusually their dump stations are locked, and
they'll give you like a little digital code youcan put into open the the cap up.

(34:07):
So, but not all Cabellas let you stay there.
Some of them, don't allow it.
It just depends on the, you know, individuallocation.
But, we, we actually stated at Cabela's a longtime ago at, in Kearney, Nebraska.
I think it was, like, the original Cabela's.
It was a very old, anyway.
Mhmm.
And, that was a nice quiet place.

(34:27):
But, yeah, Cabela's are really good too.
And you Yeah.
Go in there and and buy some stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
And and while we're all and and by the way,everyone feel free to share to out there.
One of the places that you can often stay withan RV is in, around Casinos.
So especially Vegas, for example.
You could do it, but you but you do wanna checkYeah.

(34:50):
With those Yep.
Casinos.
And they have a lot of security.
They're not gonna miss anything.
Just be aware of that.
Yeah.
Because nothing's great.
Mhmm.
Yeah.
We loved one casinos.
There's one in, at Moore, Alabama, and theyhave a paid campground, but they also have like
a free camp camping area where there's spotsthat are set aside for RVs.
But the the beauty of going to a casino is thatif there are small independent casinos, you can

(35:15):
go in and ask them if they have a any bonusesfor, like, new members, and you can join up,
and they'll give you, sometimes, probably $10free play.
And, so many times we've turned that free playinto money.
We went to one casino.
They gave me, I think it was $20 free play.
Mhmm.
And they had a free dump station.

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They let us spend the night.
We, ate.
We had a nice senior meal at their buffet of,like, $6 a person, and I turned that free play
into a 100 my life.
Wow.
You made out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I
bet you when you got that hundred bucks, you'relike, I'm not gonna I'm gonna take this and
run.
Yeah.
When when you're on a slot machine and it paysout, you gotta, oh, how could that money

(35:57):
get out?
So, but but, yeah, but we love going tocasinos, especially the smaller casinos, and
because they're the big ones, you know, like,the hair is all that they're they don't have
the free play because they're all linked.
But, always ask to see if you can spend thenight there.
Sometimes they want you to register, as a withthe security So they're they'll know, there's a

(36:23):
on the upper peninsula of Michigan, there's acasino and Christmas, and they actually have
free bookups.
So, they're they're usually taken, but there'sfree hookups at that casino.
So you'll find that some places, they actuallydo Hank, hookups and stuff for free Sometimes
they have paid campgrounds.
Route 66 casino.
We'd like to stay there in Albuquerque, I guessit is.

(36:46):
Yeah.
I think it's Albuquerque.
And, they have a big campground.
There's beautiful campground, but we also willpark out front and free, but we just, you know,
ask him if it's okay first.
I always ask.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
There's a lot of places with dump stations,especially on the West Coast I've noticed that
there are bigger gas stations or busier gasstations that, know they're dealing with a lot

(37:09):
of RVs that do have dump stations.
And, Lola and I have done that from time totime.
Some of those gas stations have been sketchy.
But, but you do just just make sure you'repaying attention to what's going on around you,
when you're doing all of that kind of stuff.
And when it comes to, like, if you're reallytired, I would say this.

(37:29):
If you're really, really tired, it's better foryou to get off the road than than to, cause an
accident and hurt yourself or hurt otherpeople.
So it's better for you to get off that roadeven if what you're doing is a little bit
questionable, and someone winds up knocking onthe door.
That's fine.
Get off that road.
Don't don't drive in that state, because you'retaking their life and other people that you

(37:51):
don't know that have families, you're takingtheir lives in your Hank.
So don't do it.
Yeah.
And each state has different rules.
I got their rest areas.
For example, Texas.
If if it's a rest area on the side, they wouldrather you spend the night there and sleep than
be, you know, driving on the the the roadstired.
So it's always good.

(38:12):
You just check on get on the internet and checkthe rules.
Sometimes they say no camping, but camping isnot the same as parking overnight, camping is
putting out, chairs in the grill and and makingyourself at home.
Yeah.
But if you're just pull over and you sometimesthey have rules, you can stay 4 hours or 6

(38:32):
hours, but it's always worth just taking alook, get on the internet, and see what the the
rules are for the state you're in at restareas.
Yeah.
Because we spend a lot of lot of nights in restareas, especially Texas, great.
Yeah.
There's some really good rest areas.
I've come across rest areas that haveeverything.
They have dumping.
They've got everything.
Dumping, I've seen, rest areas with gasstations, obviously, all that.

(38:55):
You can, you know, you can do a lot of goodthings there.
Vanessa Kitty says I use the Firestone Placesif I can find them when traveling, which is
which is also good at like, I I think it waswas it Rodel that told me, Typhoon Adobo, he
said to me, you know, like, he'll buy his tiresfrom, let's a Firestone, a chain that's across

(39:17):
the country, and then that way when you haveproblems with the tires, you can go to those
places around the country, and they'll fix yourtires because part of the plan when you bought
tires.
So they'll fix Right.
Replace them, all that.
So that, you know, that's an idea that the waycan save some money.
And then Vanessa Kitty also says, which I thinkwe're gonna talk about here, but this is a good

(39:37):
way to segue into it a little bit before we runout of time.
Military auto hobby if you are military retiredhelps.
I'm not sure what auto hobby is, but there areplaces as a retired military that you camp as
well.
But, Gartner, you're a veteran, so you canspeak on this a little bit.
Right?
Yeah.
We we stay at a lot of military campgrounds.

(39:57):
Typically, they're a little bit, you know,they're cheaper on the rate.
But for us, the best thing is they're usuallyon a base so you're more secure, but they have
access to a commissary change, barbershop so Ican get my haircut, different things like that.
And, sometimes they do have a, like, a, an autoshop where you can actually work on your cars.

(40:18):
I've never used one of those, back when I wasactive duty, I did, but as a retired, I've
never used their their shops but they do havelike, places on some of the bases where they
have lifts and, tools that you can use andstuff like that.
And, so that is the only But, yeah, we we likewe like military bases.
They're, yeah.

(40:39):
They're, pretty nice.
It's a great, great way to stay if you're inthe military or veteran, There's lots of folks
in the military that do that.
There's some really cool places.
And I and I'm pretty sure you've done severalvideos on this on your channel because I saw
the one where you were staying close to, NASA,I Hank?
Yes.

(40:59):
Yes.
That was, oh, they call it cars.
K a r s.
And it's actually a, campground park area forNASA employees, I believe, but they it's open
to military.
And we actually spent a a night there becausethere was supposed to be a a SpaceX launch, but
it didn't happen.
I said, I see another night, and I said, okay.

(41:21):
And it didn't happen.
And I got another night, and I think on 4thnight, if we finally saw the rocket.
We're coming right back.
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So I wanted to take a moment to tell you guyswhy we, as Vanosaurus, like it says on our t
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(41:41):
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(42:27):
that's best for you.
Alright.
So we're back.
Time is moving so fast.
And if anyone has any other questions, we'lldefinitely get to it here.
I did wanna say something, just looking at thatvideo there, the, the ad that we just ran for

(42:50):
Coachmen, where where brand ambassadorsofficially for them, some of that footage came
from Nick Rekio showing, you know, like, ustalking about how you changed that tire and all
that.
And one of the things that reminded me of ifyou buy, you know, even if you don't buy a
coachman van, whoever you bought the van from,if you run into trouble, mechanically, while

(43:11):
you're out traveling, you can actually contactthem, and they should try to help you out.
I know Coachmen for sure does that.
So if you run into a problem, can contact them,and they'll and and you'll say, hey.
I'm in, I don't know.
You're in Arizona, and they'll try to find aplace Arizona, or the place you bought the van
from, so in the case of Sunshine State RV orany other dealer that's out there, get in touch

(43:34):
with them.
They might help you actually sort out your yourissues that you Hank, even though you're not
where they are.
I don't know if you wanna talk about that,gardener.
Yeah.
It's that is one advantage that we've reallyenjoyed with the, coaching is the fact that we
did have a couple of small issues and beingable to call and actually talk to somebody

(43:56):
about the problem is really a very helpfulthing.
But, like, Luckily, for us, we've reallyhaven't had many issues with our our beyond.
I mean, my road track had a lot of issues, andmy pleasure we had issues.
But the, the coach has been great.
I, in fact, when I traded in my, pleasure,I've, I've traded in with the bed broke,

(44:20):
because the the couch, I mean, it only, like,it only laid down, like, halfway.
So Mhmm.
It it was stuck, and that's how and that'sStrange it in.
But, they fixed it, but I was just sick of it.
But, the coach has been wonderful for us.
And,
that's interesting.
I think pleasure way out all the manufacturersin the class b world have a very good,

(44:40):
reputation, but anything will break anythingwill break.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, but and and when you run into this issue, Ithink, you know, especially because, look,
there's guys out there.
I see, by the way, shout out to our friendRuss.
Russ Johnson.
There's dudes out there who will fix dude Russis one of these dudes.
This dudes who will fix their own problems, andI respect that.

(45:02):
I respect that the most.
I'm striving in my life to be that guy who'sself sufficient and self reliant that you could
fix everything, but some people think, youknow, I can't do this because I don't have that
mechanical, ability, that handy ability to fixthings.
There are people out here who will help you.
When you went into that stuff.

(45:22):
So
Yeah.
And and mhmm.
Yes.
And typically, it's it's a Ford.
So for us, or you if you have a Dodge, youknow, a RAM, there there are many places that
work on those things.
Maybe the sprinkler's a little bit moredifficult, but typically if you drive a Ford or
a a Ram, there's a lot of people out there thatthat can work on them.

(45:45):
Yeah.
Absolutely.
There's a lot of dealerships.
Look, even for the Mercedes, there'sdealerships.
You just you're gonna need to do a little bitmore leg work with the sprinters to to find
someone to take care of you.
There are specific Strange dealers that justdeal with the vans, and you might get low key,
but once again, regardless of what, like, justbuy what you like, you know, I'm not trying to

(46:08):
push everyone to buy a Ford.
The Ford is the best.
It is the best out there.
Sorry to tell you that.
But, you know, with Mercedes, if you run intoissues, just try to use the resources that you
Hank, dealership you bought it from, the placethat built it, they should be able to help you.
Lola says, is there a good app for overnightparking and dump locations.

(46:33):
What's what's the what do you find is the bestapp for that?
You know, it's kind of funny because I've neverreally had much luck on dumps, but if you just
go to Google Maps and you type RB dumps,sometimes you'll it'll work out, but, I've had
the best luck finding dump stations with RB,with Google Maps.

(46:55):
Yeah.
But Harvey.
Arvey Hank that too, but it's not alwaysaccurate necessarily.
Mhmm.
Yeah.
And
kind of a trick I learned if you're if youreally need to dump and you haven't been able
to find a free dump anywhere, And, there's lotsof times places like, the city might have a,

(47:15):
sewage treatment plant you can dump that.
Those we've done that before.
But, if you really get desperate and you need aplace to dump, call a local campground and ask
them if you can just dump it.
They're dump dumps patient.
And, we've we've done that before and paid,like, $5.
They'll charge you.
I've had some that say, I'll just go ahead anddump for free.

(47:36):
Mhmm.
But usually,
it's 5.
Or 10 bucks.
Yeah.
And if if they can't help you, you just callanother campground.
And, typically, if we if we're really in a spotwhere we just have to do a you know, to dump
the tanks, we'll we'll do that, but, I hadpretty good luck at just finding campgrounds to
do it at.
So Yeah.
And there's a setup for it.

(47:57):
Excellent point, Loveland and I have done thatvery often.
If you look it up, most of them have thatlisted on their website or, like you said, you
can call them up because, you know, they'remaking a little bit of extra money, and, or,
you come in there and you go, oh, this is areally nice place.
Maybe we'll stay here next time when we'regoing through.
So it's good advertising.
Yeah.
Yeah.

(48:18):
Sure.
But, yeah, that's that's a simple way of doingit.
Yeah.
Or, you know, if you know friends in the area,I always, you know, I always if I'm going
through an area now, I Hank, who who do I knowover here?
And not necessarily that you could go dump atyour friend's place, some places you can't, but
they might also know that information.

(48:40):
I ran into that one time, and a friend of minewas like, oh, there's a place here.
It's one of the biggest places that sells RVsand RV parts and stuff, and you can actually go
there and dump.
So, I think Camping World,
and something
like that.
But there were this place this ah, man, I can'tremember the name of it now.
Maybe Lola will remember if she's here.

(49:01):
And we actually, when we go through that areanow, we always go to that place, and they sell
you can just go it's like a huge it's like aCostco for RV parts, but I just can't remember
the
Yeah.
I can't remember the name of it.
Mhmm.
Go ahead.
But as far as camping world goes, a lot ofpeople hate camping world.

(49:21):
A lot of people love camping world.
I personally, I I enjoy going to campingworlds, but if you're a good Sam member, you
pay like, I don't know, 20 bucks a year orsomething.
I can't even remember what it is, but a lot ofthe, camping worlds have a dump station.
If you say I'm a good sand member I use yourdump station, a lot of times, they they say,

(49:42):
okay.
It's part of their purpose that you have.
Sometimes they'll say the dump station's brokeor whatever.
But, but I do have one huge rule about dumpstations and getting water.
Okay.
And
I eat them in the old days, I would say, well,I'll just I'll I'll go to a dump station and
I'll dump and then I'll fill up with water.

(50:04):
At one place.
But my rule is if I have to dump, if I can'tget fresh water, I will dump anyway.
If it's a if they say, we're gonna have freshwater, just go ahead and dump And if you need
fresh water, but you you don't need a dump andyou see a place where you can get fresh water,
fill your tank up because a lot of times theyyou can't do it together.
You know, you can get freshwater or you candump, but you can't do them both at the same

(50:27):
place.
So,
And you might not get that opportunity to dumpagain for a while.
And if you skip on it, then Yeah.
Or you might as well get fresh water for awhile too.
Yeah.
So And and, that's my my rule.
And I've I broke it one time, and I and Iregretted it because it has a fresh water for a
while.
Until we, got a place.
But, yeah, it's so it's it's always out there.

(50:50):
Yeah.
It seems difficult.
It's not really difficult.
I think the biggest reason we're talking aboutthis.
Like, before I started doing this, that Ipanicked over that.
And I think sometimes I still do.
I'm like, oh, how am I gonna do this?
There are ways, and you can do it you're notthe always keep this in mind.
You're not the first person.
Yeah.
You know, he won't be the last.
Mhmm.
We were needing water one time.

(51:11):
We were out god, I don't know what state itwas.
I'm bad about remembering places, but we weredriving past that there was a a Honda car
dealership.
And I noticed the guys out there with the hose.
And I said, Hey, let's go ahead and see if weget some water from.
So we drove up to their service bay, and Debsays, Hey, we own a Honda.
Can we get some free water from you?

(51:34):
We we filled our water tank at a Hondadealership.
If you have a wife or you are, you are a woman,that's, you know, some people are some some
folks out there are nicer to the ladies, thanthey are to the dudes.
I've noticed that.
If Lola asks a thing, usually people like, oh,we'll help you out.
Yeah.
So that's a benefit.
It's a benefit.

(51:55):
Yeah.
If you if you're out there as a dude byyourself, you know, it might might not be so
much, but, but, still, if you're nice and andyou're pleasant and all that this up, most
human beings want to help you.
So, you know, just ask.
Russ Johnson says, Hank, have you ever have youever pulled out your tire changing tools?

(52:17):
So the my answer to that is yes.
I and there's a video out there if folks don'tknow how to do this.
I have a video.
It's the video I did with Nick Rekio where weshowed you where are those tools?
In the in the transit, in the Ford Transit,it's right under the passenger's seat for most
of them.
And there's a special way it goes back in.

(52:37):
We show that.
Gard Have you ever done it?
No.
I, I usually carry a, a, a spanner wrench withme.
And, torque wrench and stuff like that and theair compressor.
I've never used the, 4 tools, but, it's good toalways to make sure that you have a wrench that

(52:58):
fits your lug nuts too because sometimes theydon't work.
So, if you haven't done it yet, you might wannacheck.
But I I carry a four lug wrench.
So, I have one I have one that works, but I'veheard some people say that they're, aftermarket
lug nuts don't work in the Ford Ranch.
So it's something to check.
That is that is something that is very true.

(53:19):
You do need to check on that, especially ifyou, yeah, if you if you change your wheels
themselves and you don't reuse those lug nutand you have something, or there might be a
lock or something like that on them, and you'regonna need, to have that lock.
So let's get a comment in here.
Jay Dimon says, when we lived in Alaska, wealways dumped it out local RV dealer.

(53:43):
So there you go.
You know, that, you know, I think that'sprobably it.
That's probably like a a top there.
Right?
Look up RV dealers.
And Yeah.
A lot of them.
A lot
of them will let you let you do it there.
Now some of them say, oh, if you didn't buy ithere, or whatever, but, you know, it's worth

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it's worth a shot.
Because if they're if you're trying to sellsomething, if you're an RV dealership out there
and you're gonna say, no to the people whodidn't buy at your RV dealership, then they
probably will never buy.
But if you're nice to them, you know, they theymay go, okay.
Yeah.
No problem.
So, you know, look into that and see whathappens.

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Yeah.
Let's see.
Let's get a comment from Ramon Torres says,hello, everyone from Puerto Rico.
Just entering to see what's happening.
Thanks for coming in here.
Snap the thumbs ups while you're coming inhere.
We, we always appreciate that.
And if you guys, are are finding this stufffrom from Gardner Camping Coasty, useful.
He's got a lot of useful tips and ideas andeven places that you guys can travel on his

(54:49):
YouTube channel, Camping coasty, and Iencourage you to go check out, and subscribe to
him over there.
Dan Archer says, ever have a security problemwhen on the road.
So that that's a little broad securityproblems.
I'm assuming that covers, like, danger or, youknow, feeling like someone might be trying to

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either, you know, do something to you orwhatever.
I'm I think it probably encompasses all ofthat.
What do you what do you say to that gardenersecurity issues on the road?
I've never felt threatened at all, on the road.
I'm a big guy.
I got I got spike.
You know, people at no spike.
He's a 26 pound dog, but he's he's very vocaland very

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Makes a lot of noise.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And he looks very ferocious.
You know?
But, I I've never really been threatened, butmy main thing is that I did law enforcement for
13 years.
And if I recognize a place is not being a safelooking place.
If I get a, you know, the old hair on your neckthing where if you think this is not a good

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place to be, then don't go there.
I usually avoid, big cities.
I don't like to go into big cities and parkjust, just for safety reasons, but out west or
in small towns, most places I've never reallyfelt threatened, but, it it's it's it's really

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if if you feel comfortable you're good.
If you feel that that little weird thing islike, oh, I don't like this area.
Don't stay there.
It's it's simple, and that's the beauty of usof a class b's.
You can just drive off.
You don't even have to go out.
Like, if you're if I'm in my camper, I have togo outside.
It might be pouring rain or whatever.
But in the van, you just get up and you walk tothe front and sit down here, driving your gun,

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and, it's simple.
So
Yeah.
It's
just it's never been an issue.
Yeah.
I mean, I think my answer to that question willbe very similar to Gardner, you know, I've put
55,000 miles in miles a this van travelingaround the country.
And I've never been in a situation where I wasworried about my, safety and security.
I Hank, for the most part, folks out there are,you know, there's a lot of good people in

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America.
There's some bad people.
I think, as gardener said, you do want tomitigate your risk.
And I think that's the number one part of,security.
You, one, don't want to look like a victim, oryou don't wanna act like 1 either.
So if you're aware of what's going on aroundyou, that'll that'll help keep you safe.
You mentioned it, I think, before we started,that it's always good to and you might Hank

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said it while we're doing this too.
It's always good to be where other, RVs are.
Right?
Yep.
You know?
The safety and numbers.
Yeah.
Safety and numbers.
So that's one thing that I would that, I wouldpoint out to people, but you should always be
aware.
Typically, in life, you know, some people mightknow this if they look at me and doing other

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things on you tube, you know, I'm I'm a secondamendment advocate.
I was never in law enforcement or the militarylike gardener, but I I think from just, you
know, being in the, you know, 2nd Amendmentcommunity being a gun guy that I am, you you
realize when you're training and doing allthese different things, you need to be aware.
And typically, folks out there who want to hurtother people, they are opportunistic.

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They're looking for the people who are notaware.
They're looking for an easy Vic them versussomeone who's aware, conscious of what's going
on.
So in all of this, there's safety and numbers.
You don't wanna stay someplace.
That you don't feel safe or doesn't, you know,like, if there's no lights out there, you're in
the middle of nowhere, you know, and someonewho really wants to do something bad and you're

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there, they go, well, these people are easy oran easy target.
And that's typically the way of avoidingtrouble, don't get into it in the first place,
I think.
Yeah.
I'm just avoiding if you if I said it, feelsweird.
Leave.
And, that solves a lot of problems.
Mhmm.
But, you know, if you if you pull into aparking lot at a Walmart or something you see a

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bunch of people just hanging around, justdrinking and stuff, you know?
Just leave.
And, you'll be a lot happier.
Yeah.
Go down the road.
You know, at some point here, I don't know ifthat this is, I don't know if Dan was alluding
to this or not, but at some point down theroad, I think I'll do a video or we'll do a
podcast about security when it comes tofirearms and stuff like that.

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We'll cover that.
But I'm not a lawyer.
And when I do that, when when I do that, Idefinitely would like to have some lawyers
involved in that possession.
Yeah.
If it makes if that makes any sense, let mesee.
My my camera is there we go.
It's a yeah.
I would like to have some lawyers because asyou're traveling around the country rules and

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stuff like that when it comes to self defenseare very different, and you do wanna be aware
of, of what's going on as you travel around thecountry?
Yeah.
There's federal law.
There's state laws.
Then you get local laws.
And what might be legal in the state might beillegal in that county or in that city.
You know?

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So, when it comes to self defense, I hate tosay it, but the the best self defense is to
leave.
I mean, that's, you know, if you can.
If you're 100 you're 100% right.
Yes.
Yeah.
And You're a 100% right, Gardner.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's nothing wrong with with retreating.
You know, it's I would rather retreat than haveto go to court.

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So, that's it.
That's just me.
Yeah.
No.
That makes a 100% sense.
You know, like I said, I will have, I will havesomeone come on and talk a little bit more
about this.
Like, you know, every every place has differentrules.
And I Hank, typically, you have to realize inan RV that it is considered your home.

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So you, you know, if you're yes.
Some time.
Some places don't consider it that, all of thatkind of stuff.
Ultimately, stay out of trouble.
If you get into trouble, do the that you can doto survive.
That's that
would be my advice.
I forget.
I forget where it is, but there's one statethat in an RV is considered your residence if

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you're plugged into a power pole.
If you're not plugged in, then it's just avehicle.
So
Yeah.
Yeah.
And it's just every state, every county, theyall they have different rules and laws.
Mhmm.
But
Yeah.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
I think the best thing you said is, you know,if you don't feel comfortable, if you wake up
in the middle of the night and you're not evenaware of why you woke in the middle of the

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night, but you feel weird.
Get out of there.
Ask Lola.
When I when I have the heeb gbies, I getmoving.
She's like, what are you doing?
I'm out of here.
You know, if I if I had like a nightmare or itbecause sometimes your brain is telling you
things that you don't know why it's telling youstuff.
Right?
So, but you should still act, you know?

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Yes.
Yes.
Sometimes your your best thing to listen to isthat little secret voice in your head.
So, you know, just Yeah.
Admit it that it's there and listen to itsometimes.
Yeah.
And better to better to have your wife thinkyou're crazy.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Okay.
Listen.
We are we're coming up on the a break here.

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And I I think what we're gonna do is, causewe're we're, we've gone past the hour here.
So what we're gonna do is probably take sometime to, to wrap this up.
You know?
Let's let's do that.
It's been fun.
An hour went fast.
So Yeah.
If, no one has any of questions.
And if you do have a question, you can you canhit us up here and we'll do it.

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What I usually do at this because this has beenfun, man, and whenever whenever Gard and I
talk, we could do this for probably, like, 5, 6hours.
Easy.
Yeah.
Very, very, very easy.
So what but what I do wanna do, Gardner, isgive you a chance to let all the the folks out
there know if they wanna, like, communicatewith you somehow, follow you support you,

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etcetera.
How do they do that?
Yeah.
Well, my YouTube channel is campingcoasty.
And I have a, oops, dog down here, son's dog.
I also have, my, Instagram panel is campingunderscore coasty, so you can always check out
that.
But, just send me a message.

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I try to reply every message on, YouTube.
So if you got any questions, the easiest way todo is just, just leave a a message on one of my
videos, and I'll get back to you.
And, I offer, you know, I offer to helpanybody.
If so, if you got any problems or anyquestions, if it's something I can help you
with, you know, I'm glad to help you.

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So just leave me a note.
Absolutely.
Thanks a lot.
I appreciate you coming on and taking the time.
As well as Deb.
And, of course, Spike for for being security,during the show, we we appreciate him.
Jay Dimon says, great show gentlemen.
Thank you very much.
You guys are welcome.
I know we haven't put up, a show here in awhile.
I apologize for that.

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You know, it's kinda tough, getting everyonescheduled, like, getting schedules to line up
and all that.
So I think Lola does have a few of theseplanned.
We're also gonna be getting on the road hereand going out and seeing a few things, but
we're gonna gonna keep this going.
This actually is a lot of fun to do veryinformative.
If you guys have, questions, leave them here,If you've got specific things for Gartner, I'm

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sure he'll check-in and get to those.
So thanks very much.
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That being said, thanks very much.
Gardner, you stay right there.

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I'm gonna end everything.
We'll see you guys next time.
Peace.
Yep.
Goodbye, everybody.